See if this recent thread offers any help.

The two take-away items from that thread are:

  1. Read the "How come when I automate the passwd program to change passwords for me passwd dies before changing the password sometimes/every time?" question from the Expect.pm FAQ.
  2. Assign the troublesome expect() call to an array and dump the array to help debug. Like this:
use Data::Dumper;
my @exp_stat;
@exp_stat = expect('-re', 'session:\n$');
print Dumper(\@exp_stat);

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Of course, for item 2 to be useful, you'll have to break up your giant expect() call into individual ones. And the meaning of each array element is documented both in the Expect.pm docs and that recent thread.

In reply to Re: Issue with Expect by jffry
in thread Issue with Expect by azstyx

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